Dead Zone 7.2.06

[PJO1966]

Worst episode ever. How many stupid mistakes can Walt & Jonnie make in one episode?

[Ladd Morse]

Worst episode ever. How many stupid mistakes can Walt & Jonnie make in one episode?
My lovely bride says if while each new episode I keep saying "jeeze this show has really gone downhill", she's going to bean me with the remote.

[newsposter]

ladd just noticed your sig...how old is it? the hdtivo has been out at least 2 years

and i can't even remember this show..i did watch it...oh yea..the criminals....why did he wait until the guy knocked down the door to go down the hatch????? That was the worst!

[Ladd Morse]

ladd just noticed your sig...how old is it? the hdtivo has been out at least 2 years I can't get satellite where I live, so no DirectTiVo possible here. Still waiting for a "regular" HD TiVo ...

[PJO1966]

A couple of things about the show in general... I thought I had read that they were going to concentrate more on the Stillson story arc this year. They did that in the first episode and that was it. Also, where the hell is Sara? Is she not coming back?

[Church AV Guy]

Sarah should be back next week, if the episodes are shown as they are supposed to be. That's always up in the air though.

The two actors who played the bad guys are very familiar as character actors from single-week (weak) episodes of many shows. As soon as I saw them, I could predict the course of the episode.

Walt going in without backup was unforgivable. At least they had him say that it was a terrible decision.

The doors and locks in that house are VERY well made. Two big guys couldn't knock down the door to the library? That was just silly. The Dumb waiter was closed up both upstairs and down stairs, but it was still completely operational, and the rope was still intact. Yeah, I'm buying that. A tall, wide long tunnel directly from the woods to Johnny's basement, has been there for a century, completely unused for the better part of fifty years, and having no animals or other critters living there, and very clean, not even leaves, dirt or debris. Yeah, that's okay too. None of this is even slightly believable. The 40's story wasn't any better than the contemporary one.

This was not a great episode, but the next one was every bit as good as this was bad. That's what this kind of thing is all about. occasionally there is a real gem out there. I hear that miners have to go through tons of dirt for each carat of diamond. That's what I feel like sometimes. When the dirt to diamond ratio gets too bad, I just give up. It hasn't happened to The Dead Zone yet.